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χρυσίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσίς χρυσίδος

Structure: χρυσιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a vessel of gold, piece of gold plate
  2. a gold-broidered dress or shoes

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "ἄρτι γὰρ ὁ Γλαυκίασ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀποθανόντοσ παραλαβὼν τὴν οὐσίαν ἠράσθη Χρυσίδοσ τῆσ Δημέου γυναικόσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:9)
  • "ἀμηχανῶν δὲ ὅμωσ τῷ ἔρωτι μηνύει μοι τὸ πᾶν, ἐγὼ ὥσπερ εἰκὸσ ἦν, διδάσκαλον ὄντα, τὸν Ὑπερβόρεον ἐκεῖνον μάγον ἄγω παρ’ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ μναῖσ τέτταρσι μὲν τὸ παραυτίκα ‐ ἔδει γὰρ προτελέσαι τι εἰσ τὰσ θυσίασ ‐ ἑκκαίδεκα δέ, εἰ τύχοι τῆσ Χρυσίδοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 12:11)
  • χρυσίδοσ δὲ Κρατῖνοσ ἐν Νόμοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 105 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel of gold

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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